Whether official GPA and test score thresholds or general ranges based on what have historically been offered?
@PennsyDad I cannot figure out the link. A student with a higher GPA than my son and +150 on the old SAT was admitted to the Honors College and only received a Trustees Scholarship of $11,000 annually. My son was not admitted to the Honors College but received a Presidential Scholarship of $15,000. The two kids are from the same demographic area but the other student attends a more rigorous high school. Go figure. I was stunned to hear that this kid had a smaller award. My S is a great kid but this other boy has a stronger profile. I wonder if the awards are totally random and based more on the regional dean?
@LuisaL thank you for the response. When I referenced a link, I meant a hyperlink that would take me to the information. I do understand what you are saying however. May just have to allow my daughter to apply and hope for the best. She will need quite a bit of scholarship money to make it feasible. Thanks.
The scholarship calculator on their NPC should give you a decent idea where she will fall. The stats for each tier are not published and based on the results I have seen it appears somewhat holistic and not just stats based. My S received a higher amount than some with higher stats and I’ve seen other results along those lines that lead me to believe that may be the case in some instances.
With regard to Honors College, mentioned above, UVM makes a point of diversity across schools/majors. So it’s harder to get into HC if you’re an A&S/bio major (for ex) than if you’re a forestry major. Not that they will reach to low-stats students for HC, but some majors just tend to have a lot of high stats students (think pre-med), and they don’t want the HC to be all pre-med. So there’s more competition there for some majors.
I suspect it’s similar for merit scholarships. A high-stat student in a less popular major (or who helps to meet some other goal) might get a higher offer than a student with similar stats in a very popular major.
@WhataProcess Thank you for that info on the Honors College. My son seems like he is a likely candidate for it (high grades/scores from a nationally ranked public high school). Lots of scholarship $ but nothing on the honors college.